TEDGlobal 2010: Spotlight the world's good news

You might not know it for scanning newspaper pages and watching 24-hour rolling news channels, but there's a lot of good news in the world. Behind the riots, murders, disasters and economic collapse, there's a huge number of people pioneering new ideas, new science, new technology, new social and political thinking, new art and a new understanding of who we are.

In Oxford next week, TEDGlobal2010 will be gathering some of those people under one roof for an inspiring, illuminating and exciting programme of talks and presentations. And Wired will, of course, be there.

On the bill are cartoonists, voting system designers, ecological entomologists, musicians, personal fabrication pioneers, psycho-economists, happiness researchers and data journalists. A vastly diverse range of people with a vastly diverse range of things to talk about.

Each will be delivering an 18-minute talk about an idea which makes the world a better place. That could be anything from health, to translation, to music, to teaching, to neuroscience. The only link is that they're all visionaries in their field.

Between 12 and 16 July, the very best place to keep up with all of those talks is right here on Wired's website, and also on our Twitter feed, @WiredUK. We'll have news and videos live from the conference floor and all kinds of other delights for you, and later in the year there'll also be a detailed examination of some of the talks in Wired magazine.

So if you're not lucky enough to be attending the conference yourself, or if you are attending and want a fresh perspective on what's going on, then set your homepage to wired.co.uk and your Twitter client to @WiredUK. Grab yourself a magazine subscription too, if you've not got one, and you'll be set for what's shaping up to be the most inspiring conference of the year.